Ban Calf-Roping at the Calgary Stampede
Target:
Calgary Stampede
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During calf roping, calves, running at speeds of up to 27 miles per hour, are jerked off their feet by a rope slung around their necks and then slammed to the ground. The calves may suffer paralysis, throat and neck injuries, and broken bones. Many die. Calves have become paralyzed from severe spinal cord injury, and their tracheas have been totally or partially severed.
It is not hard for anyone with a heart to understand what is wrong with clotheslining a baby animal, body slamming it to the ground and tying its legs so it cannot move. If this were done to a puppy or kitten, the offender would be charged with crimes and likely jailed.
Incredibly, rodeo people have no problem with committing an act of cruelty against a baby cow during calf roping. A roping calf is only three to four months old. After that, they become too heavy for the cowboys to handle.
Calf-roping on the range bears no resemblance to calf roping at the rodeo. In the rodeo, it is a timed event, and indefensible abuse to the calf is the price paid for a competitive time. On the range, calves are roped carefully, and slowly brought to a halt.
On the range, calves are roped for care, or to protect them from danger. In rodeos, calves are endangered for amusement. This "sport" violently and specifically preys upon baby animals, and then calls itself "family entertainment!"
Please sign this petition & let the Calgary Stampede know that you want a BAN on Calf Roping.
Hopefully this cruel "sport" will be banned by Stampede 2009.
Last year the Second Largest Rodeo in Canada, The Cloverdale rodeo in BC Banned Calf Roping after a calf was put down after its leg was broken.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=59248c32-7191-4453-8f74-2d58b8234126
For more information on Calf Roping please visit....
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000680
http://www.bucktherodeo.com/prcalet.html
In the U.S., calf roping is prohibited in Rhode Island and Baltimore
County, Maryland, while internationally, Germany and the Australian
state of Victoria do not allow the event.
Rodeos are banned in San Francisco and Napa County, Calif., St.
Petersburg, Fla., Fort Wayne, Ind., the U.K. and Australia's Capital
Territories.
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000679
It is not hard for anyone with a heart to understand what is wrong with clotheslining a baby animal, body slamming it to the ground and tying its legs so it cannot move. If this were done to a puppy or kitten, the offender would be charged with crimes and likely jailed.
Incredibly, rodeo people have no problem with committing an act of cruelty against a baby cow during calf roping. A roping calf is only three to four months old. After that, they become too heavy for the cowboys to handle.
Calf-roping on the range bears no resemblance to calf roping at the rodeo. In the rodeo, it is a timed event, and indefensible abuse to the calf is the price paid for a competitive time. On the range, calves are roped carefully, and slowly brought to a halt.
On the range, calves are roped for care, or to protect them from danger. In rodeos, calves are endangered for amusement. This "sport" violently and specifically preys upon baby animals, and then calls itself "family entertainment!"
Please sign this petition & let the Calgary Stampede know that you want a BAN on Calf Roping.
Hopefully this cruel "sport" will be banned by Stampede 2009.
Last year the Second Largest Rodeo in Canada, The Cloverdale rodeo in BC Banned Calf Roping after a calf was put down after its leg was broken.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=59248c32-7191-4453-8f74-2d58b8234126
For more information on Calf Roping please visit....
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000680
http://www.bucktherodeo.com/prcalet.html
In the U.S., calf roping is prohibited in Rhode Island and Baltimore
County, Maryland, while internationally, Germany and the Australian
state of Victoria do not allow the event.
Rodeos are banned in San Francisco and Napa County, Calif., St.
Petersburg, Fla., Fort Wayne, Ind., the U.K. and Australia's Capital
Territories.
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000679
During calf roping, calves, running at speeds of up to 27 miles per hour, are jerked off their feet by a rope slung around their necks and then slammed to the ground. The calves may suffer paralysis, throat and neck injuries, and broken bones. Many die. Calves have become paralyzed from severe spinal cord injury, and their tracheas have been totally or partially severed.
It is not hard for anyone with a heart to understand what is wrong with clotheslining a baby animal, body slamming it to the ground and tying its legs so it cannot move. If this were done to a puppy or kitten, the offender would be charged with crimes and likely jailed.
Incredibly, rodeo people have no problem with committing an act of cruelty against a baby cow during calf roping. A roping calf is only three to four months old. After that, they become too heavy for the cowboys to handle.
Calf-roping on the range bears no resemblance to calf roping at the rodeo. In the rodeo, it is a timed event, and indefensible abuse to the calf is the price paid for a competitive time. On the range, calves are roped carefully, and slowly brought to a halt.
On the range, calves are roped for care, or to protect them from danger. In rodeos, calves are endangered for amusement. This "sport" violently and specifically preys upon baby animals, and then calls itself "family entertainment!"
Please sign this petition & let the Calgary Stampede know that you want a BAN on Calf Roping.
Hopefully this cruel "sport" will be banned by Stampede 2009.
Last year the Second Largest Rodeo in Canada, The Cloverdale rodeo in BC Banned Calf Roping after a calf was put down after its leg was broken.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=59248c32-7191-4453-8f74-2d58b8234126
For more information on Calf Roping please visit....
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000680
http://www.bucktherodeo.com/prcalet.html
In the U.S., calf roping is prohibited in Rhode Island and Baltimore
County, Maryland, while internationally, Germany and the Australian
state of Victoria do not allow the event.
Rodeos are banned in San Francisco and Napa County, Calif., St.
Petersburg, Fla., Fort Wayne, Ind., the U.K. and Australia's Capital
Territories.
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000679
It is not hard for anyone with a heart to understand what is wrong with clotheslining a baby animal, body slamming it to the ground and tying its legs so it cannot move. If this were done to a puppy or kitten, the offender would be charged with crimes and likely jailed.
Incredibly, rodeo people have no problem with committing an act of cruelty against a baby cow during calf roping. A roping calf is only three to four months old. After that, they become too heavy for the cowboys to handle.
Calf-roping on the range bears no resemblance to calf roping at the rodeo. In the rodeo, it is a timed event, and indefensible abuse to the calf is the price paid for a competitive time. On the range, calves are roped carefully, and slowly brought to a halt.
On the range, calves are roped for care, or to protect them from danger. In rodeos, calves are endangered for amusement. This "sport" violently and specifically preys upon baby animals, and then calls itself "family entertainment!"
Please sign this petition & let the Calgary Stampede know that you want a BAN on Calf Roping.
Hopefully this cruel "sport" will be banned by Stampede 2009.
Last year the Second Largest Rodeo in Canada, The Cloverdale rodeo in BC Banned Calf Roping after a calf was put down after its leg was broken.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=59248c32-7191-4453-8f74-2d58b8234126
For more information on Calf Roping please visit....
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000680
http://www.bucktherodeo.com/prcalet.html
In the U.S., calf roping is prohibited in Rhode Island and Baltimore
County, Maryland, while internationally, Germany and the Australian
state of Victoria do not allow the event.
Rodeos are banned in San Francisco and Napa County, Calif., St.
Petersburg, Fla., Fort Wayne, Ind., the U.K. and Australia's Capital
Territories.
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000679
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# 915:
5:18 pm PDT, Sep 6,
Poison Ivy Kitten, Nevada
# 914:
5:04 pm PDT, Sep 6,
Name not displayed, Oregon
How would you guys like to be a baby and be living a happy life and then suddenly for no reason what so ever be killed? That's RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How would you guys like to be a baby and be living a happy life and then suddenly for no reason what so ever be killed? That's RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 913:
4:56 pm PDT, Sep 6,
Amy Wenger, Canada
it is my belief that this so called sport is not a sport but animal cruely. Any suffering without reason is cruelty and calf roping exceeds cruelty, as people laugh and cheer at the suffering of an innocent animal who does not wish to be strangled, inflicted with unnecessary whiplash or possibly die.
it is my belief that this so called sport is not a sport but animal cruely. Any suffering without reason is cruelty and calf roping exceeds cruelty, as people laugh and cheer at the suffering of an innocent animal who does not wish to be strangled, inflicted with unnecessary whiplash or possibly die.
# 912:
10:11 am PDT, Sep 6,
Myrna Rodriguez, Florida
How can this kind of cruelty is not banned yet? HOW SAVAGE!
How can this kind of cruelty is not banned yet? HOW SAVAGE!
# 911:
10:05 am PDT, Sep 6,
Patricia Mckinnon-lower, United Kingdom
tHERE IS NO REASON ON THIS PLANET FOR HUMANS TO MISTREAT ANIMALS IN ORDER TO USE THEM TO ASSIST US IN OUR WORK , LEISURE OR EVEN IF WE WISH TO USE ANIMALS FOR FOOD. WE SHOULD BE AS RESPECTFUL OF THEM AS WE WOULD WISH OTHERS TO BE OF US. THERE CAN BE NO PLEASURE GAINED FROM MISTREATING ANIMALS
tHERE IS NO REASON ON THIS PLANET FOR HUMANS TO MISTREAT ANIMALS IN ORDER TO USE THEM TO ASSIST US IN OUR WORK , LEISURE OR EVEN IF WE WISH TO USE ANIMALS FOR FOOD. WE SHOULD BE AS RESPECTFUL OF THEM AS WE WOULD WISH OTHERS TO BE OF US. THERE CAN BE NO PLEASURE GAINED FROM MISTREATING ANIMALS
# 910:
10:30 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Kelly Stone, Canada
Roping Is HORRIBLE
Roping Is HORRIBLE
# 909:
6:59 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Marianne Gonzalez, Guinea-bissau
# 908:
6:52 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Louis H, California
How can you be so cruel, please stop this.
How can you be so cruel, please stop this.
# 907:
3:07 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Romina Castañon, Mexico
# 906:
3:04 pm PDT, Sep 5,
TAMMY MARTIN, Canada
# 905:
2:08 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Mandy Button, Canada
# 904:
12:39 pm PDT, Sep 5,
Mariana Giuglaris, United Kingdom
# 903:
10:18 am PDT, Sep 5,
Margrith Hemmi, Switzerland
animal suffering can never be entertainment - it's a shame.
animal suffering can never be entertainment - it's a shame.
# 902:
9:13 am PDT, Sep 5,
Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania
# 901:
9:06 am PDT, Sep 5,
Shannon Valdez, Canada
# 900:
4:40 am PDT, Sep 5,
Holly Page, United Kingdom
# 899:
4:19 am PDT, Sep 5,
Ceri O'Callaghan, United Kingdom
With tight lip I refrain from giving my true view on the unneccessary cruelty that man does in the name of entertainment and money making. I am sure that if animals have to be man handled then there are better ways to do it!
With tight lip I refrain from giving my true view on the unneccessary cruelty that man does in the name of entertainment and money making. I am sure that if animals have to be man handled then there are better ways to do it!
# 898:
11:54 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Jodie Bertoldi, Australia
my mind boggles on how cruel acts that are posed on animals can be classed as a skill...and more alarmingly...ENTERTAINMENT
my mind boggles on how cruel acts that are posed on animals can be classed as a skill...and more alarmingly...ENTERTAINMENT
# 897:
10:54 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Mary McILwraith, Canada
Attitudes towards the care and preservation of all animals have to change universally. We can no longer hide behind ignorance. As we co-habit in the 21st century, an age of incredible access to information, each one of us is responsible for the present and the future of our natural environment and animal beings.
Attitudes towards the care and preservation of all animals have to change universally. We can no longer hide behind ignorance. As we co-habit in the 21st century, an age of incredible access to information, each one of us is responsible for the present and the future of our natural environment and animal beings.
# 896:
9:13 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Kelsey Keohane, Canada
This is disgraceful and inhumane - please stop.
This is disgraceful and inhumane - please stop.
# 894:
4:01 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Tracy Martin, Canada
# 893:
2:50 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Catherine Pelchat, Canada
# 892:
12:48 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Jana-Lynn Lalonde, Canada
# 891:
12:39 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Joelle Coudriou, France
# 890:
11:49 am PDT, Sep 4,
Mara Strydom, South Africa
# 889:
11:34 am PDT, Sep 4,
Heather Vickers, United Kingdom
# 888:
10:29 am PDT, Sep 4,
Dave Preciado, California
This has always been an unnecessary 'sport' to showcase. It can cause sever tracheal damage and neck/spine injuries. There is no reason to do this for a show. I understand it must be a necessity for ranchers, but for leisure is absolutely wrong.
This has always been an unnecessary 'sport' to showcase. It can cause sever tracheal damage and neck/spine injuries. There is no reason to do this for a show. I understand it must be a necessity for ranchers, but for leisure is absolutely wrong.
# 887:
10:09 am PDT, Sep 4,
D G, Canada
This cruelty has to stop. Cette cruauté doit cesser.
This cruelty has to stop. Cette cruauté doit cesser.
# 886:
9:06 am PDT, Sep 4,
Brenda Pakeerah, Florida
Cruelty towards animals must never be.Animals are so loving and trusting how can people be so heartless.
Cruelty towards animals must never be.Animals are so loving and trusting how can people be so heartless.
# 885:
8:34 am PDT, Sep 4,
Saeed A, Trinidad And Tobago
Are you kidding me?! I am just in awe... a baby animal... heck ANY animal?! I just can't find enough words to appropriately condemn this vile, disgusting, hideous "sport". BAN THIS NOW!
Are you kidding me?! I am just in awe... a baby animal... heck ANY animal?! I just can't find enough words to appropriately condemn this vile, disgusting, hideous "sport". BAN THIS NOW!
# 884:
8:31 am PDT, Sep 4,
Felicia Trigiani, Canada
Calf roping is unnecessary, and should not be tolerated!
Calf roping is unnecessary, and should not be tolerated!
# 883:
7:32 am PDT, Sep 4,
Michael Nicholas, United Kingdom
# 882:
7:14 am PDT, Sep 4,
Sophie Beaulne, Canada
I disagree with this "entertainment". Anything that involves an animal being chased, tied and humiliated should be banned. How about we turn the tables and release naked people in an arena, where they can't get out and have bulls, still intact with their horns to chase them. Would this be called entertainment?
I disagree with this "entertainment". Anything that involves an animal being chased, tied and humiliated should be banned. How about we turn the tables and release naked people in an arena, where they can't get out and have bulls, still intact with their horns to chase them. Would this be called entertainment?
# 881:
6:45 am PDT, Sep 4,
Kristie Jackson, North Carolina
# 880:
6:30 am PDT, Sep 4,
Jesper Larsen, Denmark
# 879:
6:19 am PDT, Sep 4,
Shruti Bali, Texas
# 878:
5:50 am PDT, Sep 4,
Amanda Daniell, Canada
Hurting an animal in the name of sport and fun is not a necessity. If it is entertainment people want, go watch a film. This is very sad and awful to watch.
Hurting an animal in the name of sport and fun is not a necessity. If it is entertainment people want, go watch a film. This is very sad and awful to watch.
# 877:
5:40 am PDT, Sep 4,
Adriana Quaranto, Florida
How can anyone think this is a fun sport and how can anyone call this a sport. Why don't we put these people in the rink and see how they like this done to them. Although this is an animal and not a person they still have feelings and emotions and brains. They know what's going on!!!! STOP THE CRUELTY!
How can anyone think this is a fun sport and how can anyone call this a sport. Why don't we put these people in the rink and see how they like this done to them. Although this is an animal and not a person they still have feelings and emotions and brains. They know what's going on!!!! STOP THE CRUELTY!
# 876:
4:36 am PDT, Sep 4,
Ines Kovaèeviæ, Croatia
STOP THIS HORABLE TRETMENT OF ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THIS HORABLE TRETMENT OF ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 875:
4:36 am PDT, Sep 4,
Andrew De Haas, Australia
# 874:
3:50 am PDT, Sep 4,
Susanna DeCecco, Canada
How would you like a rope around your neck just to be yanked around, pulled down to the ground and tied up for entertainment? If we did this to humans we would go to jail for attempted murder. It's not right!!!!!! karma people. Remember what goes around comes around....... ALL LIVING THINGS FEEL PAIN!!
How would you like a rope around your neck just to be yanked around, pulled down to the ground and tied up for entertainment? If we did this to humans we would go to jail for attempted murder. It's not right!!!!!! karma people. Remember what goes around comes around....... ALL LIVING THINGS FEEL PAIN!!
# 873:
3:42 am PDT, Sep 4,
Khirunnizam Mohd Lani, Malaysia
...die slow you fuckin' meat eater!...
...die slow you fuckin' meat eater!...
# 872:
3:30 am PDT, Sep 4,
Name not displayed, Australia
# 871:
3:20 am PDT, Sep 4,
Name not displayed, Maine
# 870:
3:01 am PDT, Sep 4,
Ian Fairclough, Australia
This is 2008, we do not need to use animals for entertainment .
This is 2008, we do not need to use animals for entertainment .
# 869:
1:46 am PDT, Sep 4,
Rhian Forrest, United Kingdom
this is disgusting, in no way could torturing an animal be amusing
this is disgusting, in no way could torturing an animal be amusing
# 868:
1:17 am PDT, Sep 4,
Amy Kauler, Australia
This is so unnecessary and disturbing.
This is so unnecessary and disturbing.
# 867:
12:50 am PDT, Sep 4,
Liv Hanna Hitsoey, Norway
Where are some peoples conciousness? To harm innocent animal is so bad...should be forbidden by law! The people who do such things ..harm any animal..dogs..cats..horses..calves, as I see here on facebook to day, they should be sent to prison and ought to pay a big big salory to get free when stayd in prison for at least a year! So we will get rid of this terrible action . The aim must be completely s t o p at these action showing us at face-book...Where are the people with power to set an end to these unhuman behavior that are hurting so many of ours friends, the silence of God Creature?? They have the same feelings as us..are more empatic to their fellows than we are..take care of their offsprings ..if they are allowed to..in a way to an excample to us humans beeings..Stupidness among people are so obvious..their cold hearts so bad and hurts everybody. Where are the powerful people or organisations who manages to set an and to these cruelty?
Where are some peoples conciousness? To harm innocent animal is so bad...should be forbidden by law! The people who do such things ..harm any animal..dogs..cats..horses..calves, as I see here on facebook to day, they should be sent to prison and ought to pay a big big salory to get free when stayd in prison for at least a year! So we will get rid of this terrible action . The aim must be completely s t o p at these action showing us at face-book...Where are the people with power to set an end to these unhuman behavior that are hurting so many of ours friends, the silence of God Creature?? They have the same feelings as us..are more empatic to their fellows than we are..take care of their offsprings ..if they are allowed to..in a way to an excample to us humans beeings..Stupidness among people are so obvious..their cold hearts so bad and hurts everybody. Where are the powerful people or organisations who manages to set an and to these cruelty?
# 866:
12:50 am PDT, Sep 4,
Alarna Paul, Australia
# 865:
12:34 am PDT, Sep 4,
Kim Overton, Michigan
# 864:
10:06 pm PDT, Sep 3,
JESSIKA SEPULVEDA, Texas
# 863:
10:00 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Pat & Mark O`Hara, Austria
Hang the BARSTARDS,How would they like a rope around there necks.They dont even have BALLS,To do this to those poor little amimals,OR BACK BONES.
Hang the BARSTARDS,How would they like a rope around there necks.They dont even have BALLS,To do this to those poor little amimals,OR BACK BONES.
# 862:
9:16 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Leslie Slack, Canada
# 861:
8:40 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Rusty Zufall, Pennsylvania
Please stop for a moment, imagine yourself in the position of these calves, and search in your heart for a little compassion.
Please stop for a moment, imagine yourself in the position of these calves, and search in your heart for a little compassion.
# 860:
8:08 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Emma Norton, Australia
Please do not treat animals like they have no fear and feel no pain. It's wrong.
Please do not treat animals like they have no fear and feel no pain. It's wrong.
# 859:
7:52 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Lisa Blundell, Australia
# 858:
7:44 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Maisie Jordan, United Kingdom
# 857:
7:28 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Maria Perez, Mexico
# 856:
6:33 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Valeria Belendez, Mexico
# 855:
6:16 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Maggie Brown, Canada
Really anyone who thinks about this for a second can realize how cruel this is! How is that entertainment? These are living beings with feelings that deserve to be treated with compassion and respect! Have a heart!
Really anyone who thinks about this for a second can realize how cruel this is! How is that entertainment? These are living beings with feelings that deserve to be treated with compassion and respect! Have a heart!
# 854:
6:15 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Name not displayed, Canada
STOP HURTING ANIMALS!
STOP HURTING ANIMALS!
# 853:
5:39 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Megan Bradshaw, Canada
Have a Heart!! How can you not realize how terrible this is?
Have a Heart!! How can you not realize how terrible this is?
# 852:
5:16 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Matt Dawson, Australia
# 851:
5:15 pm PDT, Sep 3,
Stephanie Overton, Michigan
